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WWDC Scholarship App (1)
Hello. My name is Janie Clayton-Hasz. This year I applied for the WWDC Student Scholarship through Apple. This is a multi-part series of blog posts chronicling my experiences while going through this...
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DTFoundation 1.4.1
This maintenance update for DTFoundation fixes a few minor issues and adds a new custom-colored disclosure indicator. Changes ADDED: [DTCustomColoredAccessory] Added left arrow disclosure indicator...
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AutoIngest for Mac 0.5.1
This maintenance update improves Reachability handling. It implements the improvements in DTFoundation made to DTReachability. Changes FIXED: Reachability check fixes Also there is now a 5 second...
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WWDC iWatch with Pebble
There will most likely not be an iWatch this year, the Pebble is what comes closest to it. It does have an internal ARM-based CPU and it can communicate with iOS devices over bluetooth. There are two...
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DTFoundation 1.4.2
The update was necessary because I had forgotten to add DTSidePanelController to any static library. Without that you could only compile it directly into your app, instead of being able to link in the...
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Reading Into The WWDC App
7 days (and change) before the WWDC 2013 Keynote presentation Apple released the official app to accompany the conference. Due to the (sudden, unexpected, surprising) sell-out of the conference Apple...
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Apple-tab-span
An editor has to deal with the user hitting the tab key on an external keyboard and then be able to persist these tabs. Thus the question arose how I would best represent tab characters (\t) in HTML....
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DTCoreText 1.5.3
Last update before WWDC. This is a maintenance release fixing some pressing issues, some of which were causing crashing. Changes FIXED: When encountering an unknown font family a NULL font would be...
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DTRichTextEditor 1.5.1
This maintenance release for DTRichTextEditor fixes several crucial bugs. It is the last release before WWDC 2013. Changes FIXED: Crash on hitting enter key on empty list item right after parsing...
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DIY Apple Pilgrimage Prep
This year’s Pilgrimage to the Apple Headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino is of the DIY variety. In past years Apple would have updated the Company Store website with information about extra...
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Best Road Trip Ever
On the Sunday before WWDC 2013 was spent in good company, on a road trip to Cupertino. But before we took that, we got ourselves registered. Apple successfully pioneered a new system to streamline the...
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And it is Flat After All!
On the first day of WWDC we finally got to see the result of Jony Ives’ plastic surgery on iOS 7. The new approach tries to build on familiar actions, but simplifying their visual representation. As is...
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iOS 7 Icon Squircle
Apple is not only revamping the look of iOS 7 apps to be kind of flat, also most app icons will have to get a redesign. Over the recent years we could see a trend that some app designers felt that they...
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Radar: QLPreviewController Exception
According to the QLPreviewItem Protocol Reference for iOS: “If the item is not available for preview, this property’s getter method should return nil. In this case, the Quick Look preview controller...
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I’m a Game Studio!
Until today I had only every tried my hands on a UIKit-based game, a clone of the Wheel of Fortune game show. Unfortunately Sony Entertainment asked Apple to ban this from the app store. So I had to...
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USA Prepaid Data Update
Two years ago, for WWDC 2011, I researched how to get 3G data on my iPhone. Last year AT&T tweaked their policies slightly to make it more complicated to use prepaid data with smart phones. Since I...
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DTCoreText 1.6
Actually I wanted to release this as version 1.5.4, but frankly I got lazy trying to separate new features from bug fixes. So let’s call this 1.6.0 instead. Changes CHANGED: The algorithm to place...
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Linguan and Xcode 5
Some people have reported that on a system where they installed Xcode 5 in parallel they found that Linguan gets stuck opening projects. Aparently the reason for this is that somehow the system gets...
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DTFoundation 1.4.4
Gearing up for the upcoming 1.6 release of DTRichTextEditor I also figured that I could release a new maintenance release for DTFoundation. This version just tidies up a few project-related things, no...
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International Internship Fail
When I read this article about Unpaid Internships back in May I got a feeling that I should try to do something about this injustice. In fact I know of several companies here in Austria who are also...
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